October 12, 2004

Speaker Biographies

Roger Bate is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a fellow at the International Policy Network and the Institute of Economic Affairs. He founded and was director of the Institute of Economic Affairs in London from 1993 to 2003 and cofounder and director of the European Science and Environment Forum from 1995 to 2001. He has written or edited numerous books and articles, including Global Warming: Apocalypse or Hot Air? IEA Studies on the Environment (Coronet Books, 1884); Fearing Food: Risk, Health and Environment (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999); and What Risk? (Butterworth-Heinneman, 1997).

William R. Cline is a senior fellow jointly at the Institute for International Economics, which he joined at its inception in 1981, and the Center for Global Development in Washington. From 1996 to 2001, William Cline was deputy managing director and chief economist of the Institute of International Finance (IIF) in Washington, which conducts research on emerging-market economies for hundreds of financial institutions. Previously he was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (1973 to 1981) and deputy director of development and trade research at the office of the assistant secretary for international affairs at the US Treasury Department (1971 to 1973). His publications include: World Inflation and the Developing Countries (Brookings Institution Press, 1980); International Debt: Systemic Risk and Policy Responses (MIT Press, 1984); The Economics of Global Warming (IIE Press, 1992); and Trade and Income Distribution (IIE Press, 1997).

Jon H. Entine is an adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and scholar in residence at Miami University (Ohio). He writes on genetics, economics, and public policy for academic and popular publications and writes a regular column, “The Ethical Edge,” for the London magazine Ethical Corporation. His books include Let Them Eat Precaution: Behind the Agricultural Biotechnology Debate (AEI Press, 2004); Abraham's Children: How Genetics is Unlocking the Hidden History of the Bible and the Shared Ancestry of Jews and Christians (Spring 2005); and Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We are Afraid to Talk About It  (PublicAffairs, 2000). He previously wrote and produced news reports and documentaries for ABC, CBS, and NBC News.

John D. Graham is an administrator for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget, which serves as the nation’s regulatory gatekeeper on health, safety, and environmental standards. Before joining the Bush Administration, Dr. Graham founded and led the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis from 1990 to 2001. John Graham is on leave from the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health, where he taught methods of risk and cost-benefit analysis. He is best known for his scholarship on automotive safety and environmental policy. His books include The Greening of Industry: A Risk Management Approach (Harvard University Press, 1997); Risk versus Risk: Tradeoffs in Protecting Health and the Environment (Harvard University Press, 1995); and Harnessing Science for Environmental Regulation (Praeger, 1991).

Robert W. Hahn is the executive director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He also served as a senior staff member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers for two years. Mr. Hahn has written numerous articles and frequently contributes to general-interest periodicals and leading scholarly journals, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and the Yale Law Journal. He has served as a consultant to government and industry on a variety of issues involving regulation and privatization. Most recently, he is the author of Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective (AEI Press, 2000) and editor of Government Policy toward Open Source Software (AEI-Brookings Joint Center, 2003).

Bjørn Lomborg, an associate professor of statistics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, was recently named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time magazine. In 1998 he published four lengthy articles about the state of our environment in the leading Danish newspaper, which resulted in a firestorm debate spanning over 400 articles in major metropolitan newspapers. The articles lead to the publication of The Skeptical Environmentalist in 2001, which has now been published in more than ten languages. He subsequently took a leave from the University of Aarhus to start-up the Danish government’s Environmental Assessment Institute.

Thomas C. Schelling is a University of Maryland Distinguished University Professor and professor of economics emeritus at Harvard University. He spent 1948 to 1953 in Europe and Washington with the Marshall Plan. He subsequently taught at Yale University and Harvard University before joining Maryland in 1990. He is a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association and was its president in 1991. His research interests have included arms control, energy and environmental policy, climate change, nuclear proliferation, international economics, and ethical issues in policy and in business. His publications include: The Strategy of Conflict (Harvard University Press, 1960); Arms and Influence (Yale University Press, 1966); Micromotives and Macrobehavior (Norton, 1978); and Choice and Consequence (Harvard University Press, 1984).

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